QUEER ODOR ▽*

cruelyouth:

genuineeeegenuinee:

And the thing is this: I don’t really feel that you need to have several degrees or be some intellectual wiz who can spout out words that show a dense vocabulary to do activism the right way. (And I am not dismissing the fact that language is important to ending oppression.)

In fact, I feel that all you need is compassion and the basic understanding that human beings deserve the right to feel like/be treated like/be loved like human beings in all spaces. 

And I mean, how many times do these studies come out proving things that marginalized people could’ve told you in their sleep, anyway? 

Academia can be great, but I often feel it’s a place for pretentious assholes to stroke their own dick sized egos while claiming the cloak of activism—and doing it all wrong anyway.

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There was so much of this shit at Creating Change… so many white, education privileged folks using academic speak when talking about “intersectionality” and “diversity” and “inclusivity” … like really? A lot of queer poc, diversely abled, etc folks could’ve told you that they exist and that it’s important to mobilize there too.

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